Infosys and IPsoft Join Forces; Underline Importance of Autonomics for IT Operations

Monday, April 29, 2013

Infosys and IPsoft Join Forces; Underline Importance of Autonomics for IT Operations

08:00 EDT Monday, April 29, 2013

NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- IPsoft,
a leading independent provider of autonomic IT services, announced today
that it has formed a partnership with global consulting and technology
leader Infosys.
IPsoft's proven autonomics platform - IPcenter,
together with managed services from Infosys, will help reduce costs of
IT operations and generate greater value for clients.

IPcenter delivers self-learning and self-healing systems to automate
recurring manual IT tasks, and substantially reduce human intervention.
IPsoft's autonomics services, along with standardized processes and
metrics from Infosys, maximizes the efficiency of IT operations. The
partnership will bring to market a powerful new strategy to accelerate
business outcome-based sourcing and free-up critical resources otherwise
engaged in managing routine tasks. This will help CIOs transform their
departments to meet not just technology enablement mandates but business
enablement goals.

Key Facts

IPsoft and Infosys will collaborate to set up an Autonomics Center of
Excellence and an Autonomics Lab at the Infosys Global Education
Center in Mysore

The Autonomics Center of Excellence will focus on developing technical
competencies and training of Infosys employees in this discipline. The
Autonomics Lab will develop proofs of concept and design autonomics
solutions for clients

Infosys plans to train over 5,000 employees on IPcenter in the coming
months

Quotes

Chandrashekar Kakal, Senior Vice President and Global Head of
Business IT Services (BITS), Infosys, said: “Infosys has always been
at the forefront of innovation in the IT services industry - from
pioneering the Global Delivery Model to accelerating the adoption of
managed services. We are now at the cusp of another first –
autonomics-driven service delivery. We believe autonomics can help
enterprises balance shrinking IT budgets and expanding demand for
business enablement. We are confident that our partnership with IPsoft
will help us deliver greater returns on our clients' IT investments.”

Chetan Dube, CEO, IPsoft, commented: “This is a true partnership
of strengths. It brings together the consulting expertise, enterprise IT
services, and enduring customer relationships of Infosys with the
autonomics capabilities of IPsoft. This formidable combination will help
clients free-up resources for higher priority innovation efforts. Simply
put, autonomics-driven services can bring to IT support and maintenance
the kind of productivity gains that robotics brought to the
manufacturing industry.”

Resources

Find out more about IPsoft's
autonomic systems and how they are being applied to IT
environments around the world.

Infosys
partners with global enterprises to drive their innovation-led growth.
That's why Forbes ranked Infosys #19 among the top 100 most innovative
companies. As a leading provider of next-generation consulting,
technology and outsourcing solutions, Infosys helps clients in more than
30 countries realize their goals. Visit www.infosys.com
and see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY), with its 156,000+ people, is Building
Tomorrow's Enterprise® today.

About IPsoft

IPsoft
is a global managed services provider of autonomic-based services. The
company's mission is to power the world through expert systems, and to
that end IPsoft leverages self-learning, self-healing cognitive systems
across IT Operations, Cloud Orchestration, Fraud Prevention (FAS) and
Business Process Automation. The unique autonomic proposition
effectively manages operations while reducing human error and providing
enhanced service levels. Headquartered in New York City, IPsoft has
operations in ten countries across North America, Europe, Asia and
Australia, supporting enterprise customers, service providers and
telecommunications companies.

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